How a woman got her diamond ring back 13 years after flushing it down the toilet

Losing something is desperate. Most of you will know what that feeling that invades the body is like when we lose something, much worse when it comes to objects with sentimental value. Recovering something that you have lost is not as easy as it seems. First, it depends on the characteristics of the lost; then, of the place and, third, of how realistic it is that you find it. The following story is about this and it was made viral on social networks.

a woman of MinnesotaUnited States, can ensure that luck when it comes to finding things does exist. Mary Strand lost her diamond ring one day when he was in the bathroom of his house. The ring slipped off her finger and fell into the toilet. As is logical, the woman herself did not know how or where to start looking, so she, saddened, gave him up for lost forever.

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“I was hanging around. I really went for it, and it went down the drain.”he explained to KARE 11. The diamond ring was a 33rd wedding anniversary gift given to Mary Strand by her husband, Dave. “I was thinking, ‘He’ll never buy me another ring’… I felt really bad because it was a gift.”

He ring went down the toilet and, despite the spectacular coincidence that her husband owned a drainage and sewage company, was left adrift. It was over a decade before she received a call from a local water treatment plant.

Luck smiled on them 13 years later

The woman did not count on the fact that luck would smile on her thirteen years later. All thanks to some employees who worked at a Minnesota regional water treatment plant and they found the diamond ring of Mary Strandas revealed by the local media outlet KARE 11.

Then came the day when employees at the Rogers, Minnesota, plant, including john tierneya mechanical maintenance manager, they saw a “flash of light” among the rubble.

Noting the unique design of the ring, Tierney felt that trying to return the ring would not be an easy quest. So the City Council made the discovery public on social networks, describing its discovery as a needle in a haystack.

Recently, we found a ring at one of our regional wastewater treatment plants. This is a rare occurrence, and we want to return the ring to its owner! Please contact us if you lose a wedding ring down the drain: [email protected] or 651-602-1269. pic.twitter.com/anFSH2pIkS

—Metropolitan Council (@MetCouncilNews) March 31, 2023

“We recently found a ring at one of our regional wastewater treatment plants”they wrote in the tweet, which included an image of a ring in a haystack. “This is something rare and we want to return the ring to its owner! Contact us if you lost a wedding ring down the drain”.

Hundreds of calls poured in to the plant in response to the post, but were dropped when asked to send photos of the ring. Finally, two local jewelers examined the photos and they found that one of them resembled one he had made. It was the one that belonged to Mary Strand.

The ring left the plant, which of all places is on a road called Diamond Lake, and ended up back in the hands of Mary Strand. According to KARE 11, you will have it ready to wear for your 46th anniversary with your husband.

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